Will Chalk
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Sep
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His career became a symbol of hope for many people from the Caribbean, at a time when islands were gaining their independence from Britain and trying to forge a new future.
The BBC's Clive Myrie, whose parents emigrated from the Caribbean to Britain, told Ben Thompson what Garfield Sobers and the West Indies cricket team meant to him.
It was the sport that was taken to the Caribbean by the colonials, the colonial master, which was Britain.
Sport, and cricket in particular, is completely meshed into the fabric of what it means to be West Indian.
Yeah, and that's the thing, isn't it?
We often talk about sport being a unifying force, but in this case, that was really true.
It was, absolutely, because these islands did think about what the future would be like if they tried to survive as a unified entity, as it were.
So you would have the Caribbean islands or the West Indies as a political entity, not just a sporting entity.
But they realized that when it came to sports, that's something they could coalesce around.
And as a result, the West Indies went on to become, as I say, one of the most amazing and successful sporting teams in the history of the planet.
And so that's what it meant to the islands themselves, bringing them together.
What did it mean for the Caribbean's place in the rest of the world and how other people around the world saw those islands at that time?
Oh, yeah.
of the cricket team, and that pride was instilled in those West Indians who travelled around the world, including the Windrush generation who came here between 1948 and the early 1970s.
And that sense of pride was in every single household across Britain, including my own, my kid brother.
I say kid brother, he's, what, 58?
At 59, he is called Garfield.
He was named after Sir Garfield Sobers.
And the hope obviously was that they would beat the old colonial master.
Clive Myrie reflecting on the legacy of the late Garfield Sobers.
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